React native - Programmatically check if in remote JS debugging is enabled

Question

On React-Native, how can I know if \"Debug JS Remotely\" is enabled?

I tried looking in RN docs and various NPM packages, but couldn\'t find out how...

Answer 1

Ran across this answer, but wasn't happy with checking for atob or being constrained to android. I found a function that appears to be a pretty good proxy for if the debugger is running, which is a global called __REMOTEDEV__.

In my case, I wanted to see requests made by the app in react-native-debugger, my full code is as follows:

/**
 * When the debugger is connected, remove the XHR polyfill
 * so that the chrome inspector will be able to see requests
 */
if (typeof global.__REMOTEDEV__ !== 'undefined') {
  const _XHR = GLOBAL.originalXMLHttpRequest ?
      GLOBAL.originalXMLHttpRequest :
      GLOBAL.XMLHttpRequest;

  global.XMLHttpRequest = _XHR;
}